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| This is curious for several reasons.
First the cover highlights 'Bozo the Robot'
but inside the book the character is Hugh Hazard's 'Iron Man'
Second. The cover shows a man menaced by a Robot so we assume Good Man, Bad Robot (Apologies to J. J. Abrams) until we look closer and see that the man is clearly deranged, but in fact the robot is the good guy!
Third, The Robot is so goofy looking! What is he grinning at?
I've read complicated arguments as to where Lee and Kirby got the idea for Iron Man, but I've not seen a reference to this character.
Marvel and DC in the 'Silver age' strip-mined names and concepts from out of copyright Golden age sources. they showed a pretty good knowledge of competitors characters so I wouldn't be surprised if this character wasn't an influence. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | March 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Bozo the Robot; Black X; Wings Wendall; Archie O'Toole; Invisible Hood |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | inside front cover. Red and black only. |
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| Comic Story | The Rescue of Gale Payson (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X has to rescue an American reporter from Germany and once again goes up against Madame Doom. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Gale Payson; Nazis; Madame Doom; Steve Dorgan; Colonel Atwater; Batu |
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| Comic Story | An Eerie Episode of Signs and Shadows (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Philpot Veep; Waldo |
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| Comic Story | Dunn's Double (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Clip Chance; Coach Barr; Trainer Hunt; Bob Dunn; Slick (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Arabec Oil Mystery (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Abdul the Arab; Hassan; Stanley Rice (introduction); Holden (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Missing Bullion (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Captain Cook; The Chief; Inspector Niven (introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | "Bucky" Wells (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: "Bucky" Wells |
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| Comic Story | Sabotage! (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Adolf Zhun (villain); Herzog (villain); un-named Batzi spies (villains) |
| Notes | In addressing the world at war in Quality Comics, Brenner did like many of the other writers by giving his villains names like "Hitlin" and "Batzis". |
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| Comic Story | Utopia (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pyromania is converted into a utopia and all the people get bored and move away. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: King Archie O'Toole; Montgomery; Ipswitch |
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| Comic Story | The Star of Egypt (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter; Professor Lansing; Brenda Lansing; Hoteb; The Chief (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | Five unrelated gag panels. |
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| Comic Story | The Voodoo Master of Unionville (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Hood faces the Voodoo Master, who operates from within an island, and who is killed by the Hood with a sword through the chest. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Tom; The Voodoo Master (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | The feature is called Invisible Justice but the character is called the Invisible Hood.
The Art Gordon signature appears at the bottom right of the last panel of the last page of the story. |
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| Comic Story | Mission in the Amazon Jungle (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Flash Fulton; Andy; Roger Hart; Carter |
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| Text Story | The Winged Emeralds (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Colors:? (story title, illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian |
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| Comic Story | J.S. Sargent (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Danger In Numbers (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Avenger is finally exposed. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: John Law; Albert Mills; June Carter; The Avenger; Lewis |
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| Comic Story | The Wrestling Match (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo; Mukwa |
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| Comic Story | The Bombing of the Tennessee Valley Dam (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; The Nazis; Jean Drake (introduction); Colonel Jordan |
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| Publisher advertisement | Read Smash Comics (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Promotional house advertisement promoting Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) and its features. |
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| I Swam for My Life and Won! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Benjamin's Royal Portable typewriter survives several disasters in a South American adventure. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photographs) | Inks:? (photographs) | Letters: typeset (ad copy);? (comic art) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Robert Spiers Benjamin; Benjamin's unnamed secretary; unnamed typewriter salesman; Pedro; Albert Tangora (photograph of) |
| Notes | Back cover. The feature is oblong on the page.
Comic-form advertisement for the Royal Portable typewriter from the Royal Typewriter Company, Inc. of New York, N. Y.
Includes a testimonial from Albert Tangora, the world's fastest typest. |
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